Improvement in whips



D. AVERY & C. C. PRATT.

whips.

Patented July 28; 1874.

wnuissis UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DEXTER AVERY AND CHARLES C. PRATT, OF WESTFIELD, MASS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,517, dated July 28, 1874; application .iled

i May 16, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that we, DEXTER AVERY and CHARLES C. PRATT, of Westfield, Hampden county, Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Whip, of which the following is a specilication:

Our invention consists of a whip the body whereof is composed of fibers arranged or built upon a small center core of whalebone, or

' partly of whalebone and partly of other mate rial, say a small wire or rod o t' metal, and glued or cemented and compressed, the whalebone being in the upper part and projecting beyond theV termination of the tapered body for forming the body of the lash.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a whip such as we propose to make. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line wm, Fig. 1, enlarged; and Fig. 3 is an end elevation of a tapered tube of metal to be employed for pressing the fibrous material of which the body is composed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

1n carrying out our invention we take a small core, A, of Whalebone for the whole length of the stalk, or for the upper part, and a small rod or wire of metal of about the same size as the whalebone for the lower part, and build up the body portion B upon it of bers of vegetablesubstanee, as jute, hemp, cotton, flax, or woven cloth, having the fibers run lengthwise of the stalk and tapering properly from the butt to the tip, arranging them as compactly as possible, saturating them with glue or cement, and then pressing them hard together, and drying the glue or cementV to make a hard solid body, to which the usual cover of leather will be applied.

We prefer to use cloth for building up the body, the cloth being prepared for the purpose with large strong warp and line illing or weft, and eut in triangular pieces to wind with the warp parallel to the core, and produce the taper by the triangular form of the cloth.

When the proper quantity of fibrous mate`- rial has been applied, together with the cement or glue, the stalk is to be pressed while the cement or glue is soft, and for this purpose we propose to employ a tapered tube of sheet metal, G, overlapping and not joined at the edges, which is to be contracted on the stalk previously put in it, say by forcing the tube lengthwise into another tapered tube having its edges welded together, or by a pair of groove'd compressing jaws or dies, or in any approved way.

AThe essential advantages of this body, as compared with the body made up of rattans arranged on a core of whalebone and covered with a lining of cloth or fibrous material, is the economy which results, first, from the material being cheaper in first cost; and, second, from the nature of the material being such that it can be used without Waste, Whereas there is a large waste of rattan in tapering it to the shape required by shaving oli' the upper portion.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The body of a whip made of fibrous materials built on a central core of whalebone, in whole or in part, and glued or cemented and compressed, substantially as herein described.

DEXTER AVERY. CHARLES C. PRATT. Witnesses:

M. B. WHITNEY, J. R. DUNBAR. 

